An educational, pre-literacy & phonics website with many different age appropriate activities. Our teachers use the animated calendars in large group activities on their Promethean boards.
If you’re a teacher who shows YouTube videos at school, this is the safest way to watch & share! Simply paste the link & the site will generate a safe link.
Students can create animated GIFs by drawing, typing, & inserting images. Have students create animations over vocabulary words, a book review, a poem, or a character from a book.
The sequel to the Teach Your Monster To Read, this site helps students improve their speed & accuracy with games that focus on recognizing letters, sounds, & words.
From the Delaware Art Museum, students can Tell a Story, by writing & recording a story inspired by a work of art. They can also Picture a Story, by creating their own masterpiece & telling the story behind it.
Estimation challenges with 180 pictures that contain an image for them to estimate; like height, quantity, or volume. Improve their number sense & problem solving skills by sharing their reasoning.
Provides interactive templates with brightly colored blocks to model & solve word problems in addition, multiplication, fractions, & ratios. A great site to use on your Promethean Board.
A fun photo-editing site, but the Trading Card creator is great for the classroom. Students can add pictures, color, titles, descriptions, & symbols. A great way to make vocabulary or classification cards.
An interactive activity designed to help students learn how wind turbines generate power & they can test the efficiency by changing height, wind speed, & propeller size.
More than 200 cameras take pictures of animals in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. Students can help researchers count & identify the animals by the process of elimination.
A list of technology tools focused on learning goals that encourage critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, & community involvement from EdTechTeacher.
A freeware web-based office suite that allows users to store, access, create, edit & share documents online, while collaborating with other users live. Documents, presentations, spreadsheets, forms & drawings can be created.
Just Cloud allows anyone to backup & easily share files & folders with friends, family, & colleagues. This cloud has unlimited storage & lets you access it from any device.
Create an online bulletin board that displays information using images, links, & videos. Settings allow the wall to be private, public, or moderated. This site was previously named Wallwisher.
The concepts of coding is at the forefront of this site, & have led the way in letting newbie coders experiment with manipulating computer programming.
This handy site will tell you if a website is up or if that site is down. A great way to check a site you haven’t used in a while & want to use again for a lesson.
The site drops you blindly in a location somewhere on planet Earth; using the navigation tools, survey your surroundings & make a guess as to your location. GeoSettr lets you create your own GeoGuessr challenge.
This is such a great web/mind-mapping site with a clean, bright interface. Moving graphic organizers to the web makes incorporating images & video a visible option.
This is a free student response system with a clean interface, a variety of response options, & easy student login. The app feature expands ease-of-use for all.
This site features stories from history, classic literature, movies, & helps tells the story behind the story with primary sources, videos, documents, & more.
A free language learning service that allows you to read, listen, & translate words & phrases in a variety of interactive activities. It also tracks your progress. 5 languages are currently available with more on the way.
A free tool designed for students to analyze their writing. The site will highlights parts of their writing that use passive voice, adverbs, & complex sentences. This factors into a general readability of their passage.
November is National Novel Writing Month, but students can use this site all year long to keep them inspired in writing. Includes pep talks from bestselling authors, a dare machine, forums, & a summer camp.
Algebra-based mathematics challenges in the real-world. Features short videos of professionals explaining & showing how they use math in their professions.
Videos from television show, Curiosity relates scientific discoveries to everyday life. Includes question videos for great classroom discussion topics.
Using a wonder wheel to show search results, quickly get lists of facts, websites, videos, images, quizzes, & a glossary. Then place the information you like into a built-in notebook.
A fun & challenging game to learn about genetics from the London Science Museum. Select & care for your Thing, & then create an offspring based on certain traits like stripes & size.
7,000 languages are disappearing, & taking cultural heritages with them. The Alliance for Linguistic Diversity is protecting linguistic diversity & has available audio, text, & videos of native speakers of these languages.
GeoGuessr is a geography game using visual clues in Google Streetview to find your location. Geosettr allows you create your own GeoGuesser game with 5 rounds.
Provides free resources over learning, social, & behavioral disabilities. They also provide communication cards & transitional guides for employment & life skills.
This site is an online virtual geoboard by The Math Learning Center. For students that are experiencing fine motor issues can use this tool to help compensate.
Part of the Earobics website, Game Goo provides games for literacy & language arts skills. Designed for elementary students. Have students practice matching initial & final sounds, & more.
Barbara Fernandes, an SLP who is the founder of Smarty Ears apps, runs her own blog with recommendations for apps & other tech gadgets for use in speech therapy.
A simple way to create comics with diverse characters. The highlight of this site is it offers lesson plans, suggestions for students with special needs, & 350 free printables.
Deb Tomarakos, an SLP who works with special need students with speech difficulties. She has an interest in bringing technology into therapy. Great information on apps & websites to use.
Top 10 Sites for 2013-2014
Table of Contents
Primary (PreK-5)
Early Childhood
Elementary
Primary Language Arts
Primary Math
Primary Science
Primary Social Studies
Secondary (6-12)
Middle School
High School
Secondary Language Arts
Secondary Math
Secondary Science
Secondary Social Studies
SPED
SPED Learners
Speech & Language Therapy
Last Updated - May 2014